Six Food Facts

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Six Facts about food in Elizabethan England By Merlin Nikodemus, English IV, Mrs. Stewart's Class Not everyone had ovens in ElizabethanEngland. A pie could be sent to a neighborhood baker to be baked in his oven for a small charge. This was convenient, as a bad-tasting pie could be blamed on the baker's apprentice. What on earthwas the apprentice doing? He must've fallen asleep again... When large parties wereheld by the nobility of England, a tremendousamount of effort was put into the banquet dishes. They were laid out by the dozens, and sweetmeats were piled into pyramids. Now that is some food!! Gross pies were filled with live blackbirds and frogs to make things more exciting! Sometimes small boys were also inside the pies!! Luckily, the boyswere not eaten.... The fat of a sheep's tail was used to manufacture candles in medieval England. Sometimes the tail was so heavy that the sheep's owner constructed a small cart to relieve the sheep from the weight of its tail and prevent it from dragging on the ground He/She looks a bit dismayed byits oversized rear-end... That can make A LOT of candles... Meat was sprinkled with saltand smoked to preserve it. However,the meat still rotted due to the factof the absence of refrigerators inmedieval times. A little bit of sauce and some spices,and this meat is as good as new, right?No...but this is what people of ElizabethanEngland did...they couldn't afford to wastethe food, so they tried to cover up the rotten taste and ate it A well-known delicacy in ElizabethanEngland is a pastry shell made out of leeches.The leeches would be cut open and left in a potto die. Upon death, they were covered with brownbread, spiced, cooked, and served cold. Doesn't thatjust look delicious? Saffron, a substance as valuable as gold, was used to color food golden yellow. However, in combination with redwine, one became high off it. Since eggs were forbidden by thechurch during some fasting periods of theyear, people imitated eggs by mashing whitealmonds with a mock yolk that was colored by saffron. This is what saffron looks like And those were the mostlyfreaky facts about food duringthe Elizabethan Age.Are you hungry yet ?